Legal Notice

As of May 25th, 2018, every European company has to comply with the new European General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR in short.

Payment

Lessons must be paid for in advance and must be paid in full by bank transfer. All bookings are provisional until full payment is received.

Please pay close attention to the 48-hour cancellation policy and make payments in advance within this period. 

What information do you hold on me?

Whenever you use one of the forms on this website to contact us or send us other information, we keep a record of these form transmissions in our secure online database and in our email inbox. We may collect your personal details, such as name, email, mobile number, and any other information you send to us, whether via a form on this website, a direct email link, an Excel spreadsheet, or a custom-made database.

Why do you keep my personal data?

We keep a record of your personal data to contact you now or in the future. We only contact you regarding your original request. We will not use your personal data for any other purposes, like newsletters (unless you explicitly told us to do so) or sell/give your personal data to third parties.

Who has access to my personal data?

Anyone who works at RDS Ireland Driving School can have access to your personal data.

How can I control my personal data?

To see the exact information we hold on you, use the form below, and we will send you a copy of all the data we have stored in our database. You can also email us requesting that we completely remove your data from our database.

How do we handle your personal data?

This privacy notice explains how RDS Ireland Driving School stores, shares, and retains personal information provided by our customers. RDS Ireland Driving School fully respects your right to privacy and actively seeks to preserve the privacy rights of those who share information on this site. RDS Ireland Driving School will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your permission, save in cases where it’s required by law to do so (e.g. the investigation of a criminal offence or a breach of policies, procedures or guidelines). Any personal information which you volunteer to RDS Ireland Driving School will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in accordance with Data Protection.

Naturally, if you are not happy with this Website Privacy Statement, you should not use this website. By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Website Privacy Statement. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy statements of these other websites. We do not share any individual’s personal data for third-party marketing purposes. We do not engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs. We do not send unsolicited marketing communications. The content of our site is delivered with utmost diligence and care possible. However, RDS Ireland Driving School cannot guarantee the accuracy, completeness, integrity, or timeliness of the content. In cases of declaration of violation of rights or any offensive detail it deems inappropriate, RDS Ireland Driving School will delete the concerned content at the soonest possible time.

Collection of personal information

RDS Ireland Driving School only collects any personal data about you which you volunteer (for example, by submitting an advert, emailing the company, etc.). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third party, other than those working with RDS Ireland Driving School, only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information, browser types, and other anonymous statistical data related to your use of our website. We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in aggregate form to better understand where our visitors come from and to help us design and organise our website.

Collection for technical information

RDS Ireland Driving School does not collect any personal data about you on its websites, apart from information which you volunteer (for example, by submitting an advert, emailing the company, etc.). Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third party, other than those working with RDS Ireland Driving School on normal business and is used by RDS Ireland Driving School only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.

Collection and use of technical information

Cookies may be used by this website to collect non-personal information about how visitors use our website or to remember display preferences. Temporary session cookies may also be used in some areas to enable specific functionality. These temporary session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

Occasionally, for the purposes of our online services, we must pass some cookie information to third parties. These cookies may persist after your browser session has ended. This information will not include any of your personal data or information from which you will be readily identifiable. This information may be used for evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for RDS Ireland Driving School and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. It is stored and used in the aggregate only and is not used to obtain personal data or to contact you personally, but instead to improve website services. RDS Ireland Driving School actively seeks to preserve user privacy in any interaction with third parties.

Some areas of this website use online data entry forms to collect personal information from web visitors who choose to identify themselves for the purpose of transactions or to receive products, services, or information. Areas of our websites that collect any data are required to comply with our Privacy Statement. We request no more information than is required to fulfil the purpose for which the information is being collected.

Technical details regarding visits to our websites may be logged by our internet service provider for accounting and auditing purposes. This technical information will be used only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which RDS Ireland Driving School cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute `personal data’ for the purposes of the Data Protection Act.

We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, provided that such information is combined with similar information from other users of our website. For example, we might inform third parties about the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our website's community, or the activities visitors engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.

We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfil a service you have requested (in such circumstances, the third party is bound by similar data protection requirements). Any third party we disclose the information to will use it to deliver the service in question, unless you have agreed otherwise.

We will disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.

Definition

Cookies are small snippets of data a website may store on your computer to record basic information, such as visitor preferences. Cookies are used to track usage patterns, traffic trends, and visitor behaviour. They are also sometimes used by online applications to improve user functionality. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You may set your browser to refuse cookies from any website that you visit, including the RDS Ireland Driving School website. Note that if a user sets their browser to reject cookies, they may still use the website, but functionality may be impaired.

Security

Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by our Internet Service Provider. The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organisational measures) to protect your Personal Data.